This thread is for less important site updates which may be of interest.

9/12/2009

Renamed the RMXP/RMVX boards to "RPG Maker XP/VX". Reasoning? A lot of people (including Enterbrain!) refer to them by RPGXP/VX, RPGMXP/VX, etc. RMXP/VX is lazy and potentially misleading. Having the full title ensures people know what it's for ;o

Split the Game Maker forums into two boards: Tutorials, and Support/Discussion. This is to mimic the RPG Maker XP/VX support forums, and to allow room to accomodate some new threads I will be adding when school's out.

IGM Discussion renamed to "Indie Game Maker Discussion (IGM)" - as per RM, not everyone knows what it stands for and abbreviations are lazy.

The game making forums are going through some changes. These are mainly restructuring - no data will be lost.

While it may not mean much to you regulars, I just wanted to note that the staff now have a 0-post-reply policy. In other words, the aim is that if nobody has replied to your post by the time it reaches the middle-end of page 1, one of us will reply, even if that's just with a pointer on why nobody is replying. It's not fair that some legitimate posts get no replies whatsoever, and we want you to feel that the staff are as much a part of the community as you are.

For anyone who cares, I fixed all the broken bbcodes and html in the 2008 winners topic, and moved it from the admin forums to here. I don't know why we hid it away, but I fixed it all up and it can now be found here:

Tomas is now a moderator of the music forum. He's had powers in there for a few weeks now and has shown he has what it takes. He's also one of the coolest members here (but we don't mod based on coolness!)

Web Programming and Hardware is now called Websites and Computers to better reflect it's nature.

Moved a large chunk of threads from General Discussion to other forums from times when those forums didn't exist (such as Other Entertainment, or Music Discussion). Just general spring cleaning and to try and shunt numbers from general to gaming.

This should not affect anybody, all it means is Googlebot will not count these links towards page rank. In short, it is an attack at Spambots who register fake accounts just to get their link in the memberlist to raise their site's Google presence.

It should not affect normal members - just put your link in your siggie or whatnot.

"Member's websites" is not meant to be an advertising spot anyway, merely a way for folk to find out more about you.

Has been renamed "Game Making News"; plan is to update this with indie game making news if and when it comes in. Essentially, what the eZine should have been. (Sorry about the eZine... after xieke went down, seeing as nobody else in the world was interested in it, I just didn't have the heart to remake the old issues)

Style Changer

The homepage style changer, which turned out to be temp only, has been switcheroo'd with the one from the bottom of the forums so is now permanent.